Logistics
Posted April 4, 2025 Kansas City-based Vertical Cold Storage has purchased its fifth acquisition in the past year adding a Michigan facility to its roster of cold storage facilities. Vertical Cold, a temperature-controlled cold storage arm of real estate firm…
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Posted January 27, 2025 Parkville-based eShipping LLC announced it acquired Virginia-based Integrated Logistics 2000 LLC, boosting the transportation logistics provider’s headcount to over 500. Founded by Kraig Cesar in 1999, IL2000 provides managed transportation services. It leverages its proprietary transportation…
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Posted January 9, 2025 Kansas City-based automobile hauler Jack Cooper is losing its contract with Ford, with layoffs looming as a result. Ford informed Jack Cooper of its intentions to end the contract between the two companies on Jan 2,…
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Posted December 10, 2024 The e-commerce platform OpenStore will open its first-ever fulfillment center in Kansas City, MO, and is set to open its doors in March 2025. The 113,000-square-foot facility is part of Executive Park Logistics Center, located at…
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Posted July 30, 2024 Patrick Ottensmeyer, who served as the final CEO of Kansas City Southern, died on July 28. He was 67. Canadian Pacific Kansas City, the railroad company formed from the transaction between Canadian Pacific and Kansas City…
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Posted July 22, 2024 St Joseph-based TransPort 360, LLC has appointed Aaron Khouri as the new CEO, succeeding Bill Becker, who announced his retirement. Khouri began his new role effective July 18, according to a release. He joined TransPort 360…
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Posted June 3, 2024 St. Louis-based Agilix Solutions has opened a new 102,000-square-foot building in Lenexa, Kansas, tripling the size of the company’s KC footprint. Agilix has begun operations at its new facility located at 10960 Lakeview Avenue in Lenexa,…
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Posted April 30, 2024 Members from the Missouri Department of Economic Development, Missouri Governor Mike Parson and leaders of the logistics company Americold gathered Tuesday to break ground on the $127 million facility. In February, Americold announced a strategic collaboration…
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Posted April 10, 2024 Olathe-based Integrated Openings Solutions Holdings, LLC is acquiring Atlass Hardware, increasing its presence in the Southeast Florida market. Integrated Openings Solutions (IOS) announced its acquisition of Atlass Hardware in a release, last week. Terms of the…
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Posted February 29, 2024 Parkville-based transportation logistics company eShipping LLC announced it has acquired two logistics companies from Wisconsin and New York. EShipping acquired Wisconsin-based Superior Transport & Logistics and New York-based Synapsum to provide more custom data, insights and…
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